Technology

Toronto, December 13 Pokemon Go may help people who struggle socially, according to a study which found that the popular augmented reality game has a lot of social aspects and requires players to have good social competence. Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada recruited 101 PokemonRead More

Melbourne Scientists have found a novel way to alter the structure of glass to improve its resistance to fractures, an advance that may lead to the development of shatter-proof smartphone screens. “Everyone knows how frustrating it is when you drop your mobile device and get a large crack in theRead More

New Delhi: India is ranked 109th in the mobile internet speed and 76th for fixed broadband speed globally, which is a 15 percent increase, according to data from Ooklas November Speedtest Global Index. “At the start of 2017, the average mobile download speed in India was 7.65 Mbps. Heading intoRead More

San Francisco: Phablets (smartphones with screen size of 5.5-7 inches) will far outpace total market growth by climbing from 611 million units in 2017 to one billion units in 2021, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.1 percent. In comparison, the total smartphone market is expected toRead More

San Francisco: Facebook users will soon be able to send a variety of `greetings to interact with their friends in a unique way. Apart from `Poke`, now you can send a wink, a high-five, a hug and a wave. According to a report in The Nation, the options are underRead More

San Francisco: WhatsApp is testing new features for its over one billion users that include tap to unblock and private replies in groups, among others. In the latest WhatsApp Android Beta version, spotted by the popular fan website WABetaInfo, “when you want to select a contact from the Contact List,Read More

San Francisco: Google will soon launch a useful update to Google Maps that will give users live guidance and interactive real-time notifications during their journey. The real-time updates will be given while a user is are on his/her transit journey and the updates will appear in the Google Maps app.Read More

Los Angeles, December 9 Scientists have proven the existence of new form of matter called excitonium – which was first theorised almost 50 years ago. Researchers from University of California Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US studied non-doped crystals of the transition metal dichalcogenide titanium diselenideRead More

London The Martian atmosphere is well protected from the effects of the solar wind, despite the absence of an Earth-like magnetic dipole, a study has found. Present-day Mars is a cold and dry planet with less than one per of Earth’s atmospheric pressure at the surface. However many geological featuresRead More

San Francisco: Popular photo-sharing platform Instagram is working on “Direct” — a standalone app for private messages which will reportedly remove messaging features from the main app. “`Direct`, which opens to the camera in the same way Snapchat does, will become available on Android and iOS in six countries includingRead More